Rio 2016 Olympic Games Assembly

Olympic Games 2016 Class Play - on all 28 sports! (One of 10 Olympic scripts written by Sue Russell)
Cast of 30, approximate duration: 30 minutes.
This class play on the 2016 Rio Olympic Games covers all 28 sports, identifying the challenges facing all those taking part in the Games this year. And as usual, our narrator has more than enough challenges of his own - keeping order with this very 'mixed bunch'! Citius Altius and Fortius are all admirably demonstrated - even by those winning backwards!?! Read on to find out who these unlikely champions are!
Sample Text:
Narrator: Well I do feel I’m burning up rather a large number of calories – just listening to what all these athletes have to do! Still, I guess sitting in a boat can’t be that hard!
Child 16: (Exploding) Pardon? I’d like to see you taking on them rapids!
Narrator: (Anxiously) Rapids? Whoever said anything about rapids? Not the white water variety I’m hoping?
Child 16: Oh yes! You could find yourself in some very deep water!
Narrator: Not if I have anything to do with it! I’ll be keeping my feet firmly on the ground!
Child 16: Well, we do race our canoes on still water, too. But there’s nothing still about our bodies when we’re battling to get to that finishing line first!
Child 17: And then there’s us rowers! The only guys to cross the finishing line backwards!
Narrator: Pardon?
Child 17: Yes, winning backwards is our speciality! Eight of us pulling on those oars, splashing along backwards!
Narrator: So how can you see where you’re going?
Child 17: By listening to the cox – he or she acts as our eyes and tells us which way to go!
Narrator: Quite a responsible job, I’m guessing! Keeping you on that river – and not in it!